School Crisis Response: Reflections of a Team Leader

* Supports the training and development of school crisis responders across disciplines, by sharing narrative studies about actual traumatic events
* Highlights the multi-phased, multi-disciplinary nature of school crisis response, emphasizing the need for effective coordination, collaboration, and evidence-based approaches
* Illustrates the benefits of having conceptual frameworks such as the National Association of School Psychologists’ PREPaRE model to guide prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, to navigate the chaos of traumatic events
* Describes application of learned concepts, interventions and skills during responses to high incidence traumatic events (i.e. death of student; death of teacher)